From: <for_spam_at_gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:39:06 +0200 (MEST)

hello,
i have often came accross mixed up menus, i.e. completly wrong strings at
completly wrong positions
which nearly made me going crazy.
for me, it seems, the current implementation of language_strings isn`t
really bullet proof.
I also find it annoying, that entries in .lang-files can occur at completely
different positions for each
language, and if you want to do some changes you constantly have to use your
editor`s search feature.
I really would like it, if english and other langfiles would be in "sync." -
line by line.

regards
roland
 
>
> Quoting Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>:
>
>
> > [Your] current concept depends on the order of the strings. Use the
> > str()
> > macro and stay out of trouble.
>
>
> And admittedly that's safer. But by using str() exclusively, I find that I
> repeat the same code in many functions to copy pointers from
> language_strings to a local array. It's tedious, and error-prone, and it
bloats the
> code. I think we code save a non-trivial amount of code by insisting the
lang
> strings be ordered.
>
> My first thought was to do the copying, in one function, into static
> arrays, and call that function whenever a new lang file was loaded. My
code
> would then refer to my static arrays. You objected to that as well, as it
means
> keeping pointers to the internationalized strings. (Which is bad why? Will
> those strings be relocated at any tme other than when a lang file is
> loaded?)
>
>
> Below is the code that gets repeated; note that even with what I'm doing,
> I can't remove the first ("chop_option") because "YES" comes before "NO"
in
> language_strings:
>
> char* chop_option[] = {
> str( LANG_SET_BOOL_NO ),
> str( LANG_SET_BOOL_YES )
> } ;
>
> char* display_option[] = {
> str( LANG_FILE_PREFIX_OFFSET_AT ),
> str( LANG_FILE_PREFIX_OFFSET_AFTER )
> } ;
>
> char* character_class_option[] = {
> str( LANG_FILE_PREFIX_CHAR_CLASS_SPACE ),
> str( LANG_FILE_PREFIX_CHAR_CLASS_PUNC ),
> str( LANG_FILE_PREFIX_CHAR_CLASS_LETTER ),
> str( LANG_FILE_PREFIX_CHAR_CLASS_DIGIT ),
> str( LANG_FILE_PREFIX_CHAR_CLASS_LETTER_OR_DIGIT )
> } ;
> --
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>

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Received on 2003-04-27